Hour 8. Interacting with MySQL Using PHP

Now that you've learned about PHP and MySQL, you're ready to make the two interact. Think of PHP as a conduit to MySQL the commands you learned in the previous hour are the same commands that you will send to MySQL in this hour, only this time you'll send them with PHP. In this hour, you will learn

• How to connect to MySQL using PHP

• How to insert and select data through PHP scripts